The Assassination of John Kennedy: An Alternative Hypothesis

Lobster Issue 2 (1983) £££

In this essay I offer some informed speculation on the assassination of John Kennedy. I have called this a new hypothesis, but in fact it is the elaboration of a hunch about the case – but an interesting hunch, I think. I take as proven that there was a conspiracy to murder Kennedy and a … Read more

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Drugging America: a Trojan Horse

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Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££

[…] these people, trailing all these politically embarrassing connections to the US intelligence community, bombed the World Trade Centre.(1) None of this can be stopped because of the spook connections. The Cubans have their get-out-of-jail-free card; and, as a result, their clients are also protected from routine investigation and prosecution. The Cuban money laundry is […]

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Re:

Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££

Assassination or ‘targeted killings’? Joshua Raines of the University of Iowa College of Law argues that although assassination, ‘narrowly defined’ [sic], is illegal, ‘targeted killings’ could well be permissible under ‘just war’ criteria. The US should therefore pass legislation that allows for ‘…targeted killings under a very narrow range of circumstances with adequate checks built … Read more

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Enemies Within?

Lobster Issue 29 (1995) £££

[…] book: ‘Let’s face it, the NUM were never more than a bunch of amateurs trying to take on the might of the state.’ Windsor is probably the spook Milne thinks he is, but this is true. Big boys’ rules. Notes He received admiring reviews from the British Left, notably Paul Foot (the Spectator, 21 […]

Fifth Column: Plots, smoke and mirrors – managing our Muslim brothers

Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££

[…] instincts are cautiously tolerant, are presented with ‘facts’ that constantly imply an enemy within. But is there more to this than meets the eye? The French ‘ spook’ trade newsletter, Intelligence Online (edition 531, 10 September) contained details of increases expected in European R&D expenditures in the security sector. There was an odd entry […]

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After Kelly: ‘After Dark’, David Kelly and lessons learned

Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££

[…] ‘rather nondescript club’ and is warned in a phone call that he could be bankrupted by a full tax inspection. He is then tipped by a ‘ spook’ from MI6 that Kelly’s death was a ‘wet disposal’. After meeting Baker, this contact has his laptop stolen. Another such key source – ‘I cannot publicly […]

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Feedback

Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££

From Mark Hollingsworth As the journalist, along with Nick Fielding, who first reported David Shayler’s revelations about MI5 in the Mail on Sunday in 1997, I would like to set the record straight on your piece in Lobster 36 (‘Peter’s Friends’?) I have remained close to David Shayler and Annie Machon, his girlfriend and also … Read more

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Lying about Iraq

Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££

NB This issue of Lobster went to the printer in late May. At that stage no Iraqi ‘weapons of mass destruction’ had been found by the ‘coalition’ forces. Before the furore over the British government’s ‘dodgy dossier’ in February, in truth I hadn’t been really paying much too attention to the then impending assault on … Read more

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Journals

Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££

[…] it is partly a newsletter, in a continuous process of up-dating the reader. One of those themes is the survey of legislation and politics in the US spook world. But as well as the fairly dry details of bills, appropriations and Congressional debates, it covers the major parapolitical themes. So, for example, in the […]

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Brothers

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Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££

Brothers: The hidden history of the Kennedy years David Talbot London: Simon and Schuster, 2007, h/b, £20   Another Kennedy book? Yes, but a good one. Talbot may not have anything new of substance to tell us about the assassination per se but has much new material about events before and after it. Talbot’s JFK … Read more

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